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One of the study claims in Islam is how eerily it corresponds with modern science as we know it today.
makes a number of extravagant claims which would appear to the untrained eye to be ‘miracles’ but which come apart under a small amount of investigation.
He has created the Heavens and the Earth for Truth. He wraps the night up in the day and wraps the day up in the night. (Qur’an. 39:5)
In the Qur’an the words used for describing the universe are quite remarkable. The Arabic evince which is translated as “to wrap” in the above compose is “
” In English it means “to alter one thing lap over another folded up as a garment that is laid away.” For dilate in Arabic dictionaries this word is used for the action of wrapping one thing around another in the way that a turban is put on. The information given in the compose about the day and the night wrapping each other up includes accurate information about the shape of the world. This can be adjust only if the Earth is go. This means that in the Qur’an which was revealed in the 7th century the roundness of the world was hinted at.
However it should be remembered that the understanding of astronomy of the measure perceived the world differently. It was then thought that the world was a flat cut and all scientific calculations and explanations were based on this belief. However the Glorious Qur’an has employed the most definitive words when it came to describing the universe. These facts which we could only correctly understand in our century have been in the Qur’an for a vast length of measure.
It is He Who created everything on the earth for you and then directed His attention up to heaven and arranged it into seven regular heavens. He has knowledge of all things. (Qur’an. 2:29)
Then He turned to heaven when it was consume. In two days He determined them as seven heavens and revealed in every heaven its own assign. (Qur’an. 41:11-12)
“The concept of a was espoused by apparently on aesthetic grounds as he also held all other celestial bodies to be spherical. It replaced earlier beliefs in a : In early Mesopotamian thought the world was portrayed as a flat disk floating in the ocean and this forms the premise for early Greek maps like those of and.”
But also puts the lie to the ‘original’ claim of the ’seven firmaments’ thusly:
“Other speculations as to the cause of Earth consider a seven-layered or alluded to in the and ancient writings (see ). In fact the Earth is reasonably well-approximated by an.”
(The Avesta for those of you interested are the sacred texts of and has been dated linguistically at about 1000 BCE but the written change is dated back up CE).
(c. –) recognized that the Earth is spherical in his astronomical text. This is also recognized in another text composed around the same time and in a later commentary.
( - ) travelled to southern to study Pythagorean. When he returned to and established his educate. Plato also taught his students that Earth was a sphere. If man could soar high above the clouds. Earth would agree “a ball made of twelve pieces of leather variegated a patchwork of colours.”
( - ) was Plato’s prize student and “the mind of the educate.” Aristotle observed “there are seen in and […] which are not seen in the northerly regions.” Since this could only happen on a curved ascend he too believed Earth was a sphere “of no great size for otherwise the cause of so slight a change of place would not be quickly apparent.” (De caelo. 298a2-10)
Aristotle provided physical and observational arguments supporting the idea of a spherical Earth:
Every portion of the earth tends toward the bear on until by compression and convergence they form a sphere. (De caelo. 297a9-21)
The concepts of symmetry equilibrium and cyclic repetition permeated Aristotle’s bring home the bacon. In his he divided the world into five climatic zones: Two temperate areas were separated by a torrid govern come the as well as two cold inhospitable regions. “one come our upper or northern impel and the other near the southern pole,” both impenetrable and girdled with ice (Meteorologica. 362a31-35). Although no humans could survive in the frigid zones inhabitants in the southern temperate regions could exist.
( - ) estimated ’s circumference around. He had heard about a place in where the was directly overhead at the pass solstice and used geometry to come up with a circumference of 250,000. This calculate astonishes some modern writers as it is within 2% of the modern value of the equatorial circumference. 40,075 kilometres..[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://gods4suckers.net/archives/2007/09/16/allegories-gone-wild-an-oval-earth-and-seven-firmaments/
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